Fernando Blanco

🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Once excavaciones arqueológicas y paleontológicas en Cuenca: de los cocodrilos de Lo Hueco a las pinturas rupestres vocesdecuenca.com/culturayvida/o… a través de @Voces de Cuenca

New paper in Paleobiology! We explore how headshield processes in ostracoderms functioned like control surfaces on planes — helping these early vertebrates stabilize and maneuver in water. CFD + fossil fish = 🦴✈️💨 @8VicenteSanchez @OSanisidro @Macro_Fun Thread 👇

The CPEG & CPB meeting is officially underway! 🎉 We kicked off with two fantastic workshops: 📊 R-based open data science in palaeobiology & ecology 🧠 Deep learning for macroevolutionary analyses Big thanks to all our speakers & participants - spot yourself below! #CPEGCPB25

Thanks to everyone who joined today’s workshop — great discussions and exciting tools for tackling deep-time evolution! Looking forward to more inspiring science as the @CPEG_CPB25 talks kick off tomorrow. See you there! 🌍🦴📊

For the final session of the day, we’re digging a bit deeper into deep learning with DeepDive @CPEG_CPB25 🤿🎣

We’re moving on to BDNN now — neural networks are taking over the workshop! 🧶🧠 @CPEG_CPB25 github.com/thauffe/PyRate…

Kicking off @CPEG_CPB25 with our workshop 'Decoding the Past: Deep Learning for Macroevolutionary Analyses' — full room and lots of enthusiasm for learning cool macroevolutionary methods 💻🦌🐬🦕

A new ruminant confirms two biogeographic provinces in Asia 38Mya and brings weight on the scenario of eocene-oligocene fauna in central Asia (faunal turnover before 34Ma). Thank you so much colleagues, editors, and reviewers for having this paper out ! 🦌🦬🐃🦒🐐🐏

🚨 So excited to finally share an incredible discovery from the #Triassic, Grès à Voltzia! Our international team, led by @StephanSpiekman and published today @Nature reveals a new reptile, #Mirasaura grauvogeli, donning an elaborate crest 🦎🔬✨ nature.com/articles/s4158…

#ICTSNews Los investigadores Ignacio Lazagabaster (CENIEH), Laura Martínez (Universidad de Barcelona) y Jan Van der Made (@mncn_csic) estudiando los macacos de Atapuerca en el Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada @CENIEH_Labs

Rothier, P.S., Herrel, A., Benson, R.B.J. et al. Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals. BMC Ecol Evo 25, 69 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s12862…

🌍 What structures life on Earth? In the 1980s, Brown and Maurer laid the foundations of macroecology with a simple, powerful idea: space, time… and FOOD. Where food is, how it's distributed, and who gets access to it.

New paper today about the evolution of the wrist along the dinosaur to bird transition: a bird-like configuration appeared in predatory dinosaurs first, as suggested by new exceptionally preserved hands of oviraptors and troodontids nature.com/articles/s4158…

Do you want to take an advanced course for free on #Rproject, #ecology, or #phylogenetics? Apply for a @TransmitScience fee waiver! Please share :)

An important study constraining high-frequency short-term sea level fluctuations at orbital time scales (10^4 - 10^6 years) during the Phanerozoic Eon. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We’re hiring postdocs in the Shen Lab! We're seeking candidates with expertise in: 🧪 Natural product discovery 🧬 Genome mining ⚗️ Synthetic chemistry & biocatalysis (esp. for ADCs) Interested? Email Professor Shen with your CV + references: 🔗 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5213…

Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan by JSPS. For outstanding postdoctoral researchers to conduct collaborative research with leading research groups at universities and research institutions in Japan. at jsps.go.jp/english/e-fell… Apply by August 29, 2025, 5 p.m. (JST)

Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan(Short-term) to provide opportunities for overseas researchers with excellent records of research achievements to visit Japan for 14-60 days for discussions, exchange of ideas, lectures, & other activities at jsps.go.jp/english/e-inv/…

Revealing article, showing that there is a significant relation between the biomass of oceanic animals and their dynamics, including during extinction events, through the Phanerozoic Eon. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 6 new positions open for application within the fields of #macroecology, #ornithology, & #genomics at Villum Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity, UCPH. Application DEADLINE 31 July 2025. Read more about the positions application process: macroecology.ku.dk/news/2025/six-…